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Dub of the Year Douglas S. Burns, 20, ol Boston, Mass.,
was acclaimed winner of the title "Dub of the Year" at a
Cotillion held in a Boston hotel by six young men who were
annoyed at Debs in general. Placing the crown on his brow
Is Actress Jane Russell. (AP Wlrephoto)
As Year Begins Earth Closest
In Its Approach to the Sun
By J. HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer, Extension Division, Oregon Higher Education 6ystem
A new year again is with us
closest approach to the sun.
At about midnight January 2, we shall be only 91,500,000
miles from the central luminary of our solar system. Strange as
it may seem, this is 3,000,000 miles nearer than we shall be in
hi &
Named Edward Ware Bar
rett, (above) of New York,
was named by President Tru
man as assistant secretary of
state for public affairs. For
the past four years Barrett
has been editorial director of
Newsweek magazine. He is
39 and a nntlve of Birming
ham, Ala. Among his other
duties in his new post, he
will be In charge of the "Voice
of America" program. He suc
ceeds George V. Allen, our
new ambassador to Yugo
slavia. (AP Wircphoto)
People Meet
To Protest
People living in the suburban
ureas of Snlem will hold a mass
meeting at Four Corners Com
munity hnll Tuesday night at
7:30 to protest curtailment of
service by City Transit Lines.
Otto H. Helnke, member of n
committee of protesting people
cast of the city, made the an
nouncement. He said Don Doerf
lcr would preside. Floyd Thom
as is also n member of the com
mittee. Officials of the transit lines
will be Invited to attend the
meeting, Heinke said. Also, the
invitation Includes people living
inside the city and who arc not
necessarily affected by the
change in schedule proposed by
the transit company.
New Year's Eve Fire
Claims 7th Victim
Houston, Jan. 2 Wi A New
Year's Eve fire In a Rosenberg
farm house claimed its fifth vic
tim today. She was Lucia Rodrl
qucz, 7.
Eufemla Rodrlquez, 2, and her
brother, Guadelupc, 9, died ear
lier. All three were children of
Mr. and Mrs. Fausta Rodrlquez,
who also were injured.
The others who died were
Steve Rodrlquez, 4, and his
mother, Mrs. Refugio Rodrl
quez, 29, members of another
family.
Fausta Rodrlquez said the
two families had taken shelter
in the two room house during
a rain storm. He said a match
was tossed Into a stove, a fire
flared and a nearby can of ker
osene Ignited.
Fourteen people were burned
Ore., Monday, January 2, 19501
and finds our old earth at Its
July. This proximity adds a little
extra to the summer now on in
the southern half of the world
Wherever the heavens are
clear, a splendid planetary dis
play is in store for the evening
of January 1 and during the fol
lowing week. The finest, at prcs
ent, of the other worlds, Mer
cury, Jupiter and Venus, will
be fairly evenly spaced in al
most a straight line running up
ward and somewhat southward
from the southwestern horizon
Mercury, the lowest of the three,
will be setting a little over an
hour after sunset, so look as soon
as the twilight is sufficiently
deepened . The order of bright
ness is upward, with gorgeous
Venus at the top of the line
Venus, still at its maximum
brightness (magnitude minus 4.
4), is setting three hours after
the sun. It will gradually de
crease in brilliancy and appar
ently draw nearer the sun dur
ing the coming days, and by the
end of January will disappear
entirely from the evening sky.
Seen through optical instru
ments, Venus is now a beauti
ful crescent.
Saturn is now rising almost
due east around 10 p.m. Within
the next hour, Mars clears the
horizon at about the same place
and follows Saturn up the sky.
Reddish Mars, now the brighter
of the two, will continue to In
crease In luminosity until the
end of March when it will have
nearly six times its present bril
liancy and will rise at sunset
For the brighter stars, let us
oDserve around 7 p.m. Fomal-
haut, considerably to the left of
Venus, is now low in the south
west. Low and almost due west,
we find Altalr, with a dimmer
star on each side. Well above
the northwestern horizon, bright
Vega scintillates energetically.
Much higher and almost above
Vega, Deneb heads the Northern
Cross.
In the eastern half of the
sky, the bright stars Castor and
Pollux, The Twins, ore fairly
high in a little north of due
cast. Caste, the yellow twin. is
above his orange brother. Almost
due east, Procyon of the Little
Dog is not far above the sky
line. Very high in the cast, yel
low Capclla is prominent.
Well up In the southeast, the
attractive stars of Orion out
line a large figure. Three evenly
spaced stars in a short, vertical
line form the belt of the hunter.
Much more brilliant are Betel-
geuse to the left and sparkling,
white Rlgel to the right. Consid
erably above Orion is orange
Aldcbaran, and as far below
about on the horizon is the
brilliant dog star, Slrus.
Shoe Repair Shop
Changes Ownership
Woodburn The LeFcvre
shoe shop in Woodburn has
been sold by the owner, H. S.
LeFcvre, to Amos Shaffer of
Philomath, effective January 1.
The new owner has been In the
shoe repair business for 28
years.
LeFevre has operated the
shop in Woodburn for 24 years
in the fire, started, apparently,
when gasoline was poured by
mistake in a kerosene stove.
Three members of the Faustol
Rodriguez family were not lios
Rain Postpones
Mummers Frolic
Philadelphia, Jan. 2 VP) Rain
and cloudy skies today forced
postponement of the traditional
Philadelphia Mummers parade.
Parade officials, at a last min
ute conference, decided to hold
the gayly costumed march next
Saturday in hopes of better
weather.
rne 7,uuo marcners, many
carrying their string band in
struments, were already to be
gin strutting up Broad street
when word of the postponement
was received.
Billed as one of the biggest
and best parades in the 150-year-history
of the Mummers, this
year's march was carried over
until today because Jan. 1 fell
on Sunday.
Yugoslavs Buy
U.S. Aircraft
Washington, Jan. 2 VP) Yu
goslavia is buying American
aircraft engines and equipment
of commercial design but the
U. S. government has turned
down "at this time" a Yugo
slav bid for military type en
gines.
Export licenses already have
been issued for used aircraft en
gines, tires, radios, hydraulic
equipment and spare parts.
U. S. officials who made these
disclosures yesterday added that
the rejection of the request for
military shipments should not
be taken to mean the United
States is uninterested in bolster
ing Yugoslavia against possible
attack from Russia.
This nation recently signed a
civil aviation agreement with
Yugoslavia. Also, President Tru
man made it plain through Am
bassador George Allen that the
U. S. would view aggression
against the Balkan country as
seriously as it did that against
any other nation.
Since communist Yugoslavia's
break with the Cominform the
U. S. has followed a policy of
extending limited but strictly
non-military aid to Marshall Ti
to. Officials said that although
the decision to permit the ex
port of aircraft parts denotes a
liberalization of U. S. policy
toward Yugoslavia, military
shipments can not be permitted
"at this time."
With the equipment it does
receive Yugoslavia is expect
ea to expand its present air
route beyond Zurich, Switzer
land, to Paris, London and pos
sibly Amsterdam and Scandin
avia.
Salem Asked to
Aid Lowerys
itcsiaenis or tne salcm area
are being given an opportunity
to aid the Homer Lowery fam
ily or rails city who lost two
little girls and all personal ef
fects in a fire which destroyed
their home last Wednesday
morning and put father and an
other child in the hospital.
A donation auction sale Is
scheduled here for Wednesday
evening at 7:30 o'clock with Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Burke and Emery
Ainerman donating their facili
ties and time at 3610 Silverton
road. Persons having articles to
contribute may contact the
Burkes by telephone and they
will pick up the offerings.
Members of the Falls City
Ladies' Aid spent the week-end
sewing quilts for the Lowerys.
Donations of blankets from Mag
nolia Rebekah lodge were also
received.
At St. Paul's Episcopal parish
house, where Salem contribu
tions are bong left, with the
Capital Journal cooperating,
Rev. George Swift reported two
donations for bedroom equip
ment. One cf these, consisting of
bedstead with springs and mat
tress, will be picked up by Floyd
French of Falls City on Ferry
street, he donor having no
truck with which to take them
to the parish house.
The other donations, three
boxes of bed clothing, will be
delivered at the parish house
Tuesday, morning.
Contributions may be left al
the parish house, 540 Chemeke
ta street, from 10 a.m. to 6
p.m. each day until Saturday,
and on Saturday from 10 a.m.
to noon.
Firemen Called Twice
Hubbard The fire depart
ment was called out to Cliff
Driver home twice Thursday af
ternoon and evening when the
sawdust furnace burned out
some insulation.
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$350,000 Floral Tribute
Opens Pasadena Rose Show
Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 2 UP) A $350,000 floral tribute to the
theme "Our American Heritage" rolled down Colorado street to
day in the greatest Tournament of Roses in history.
Seventy-two floats bearing more than eight million blossoms
stretched out-for six miles among the million and a half persons
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Release Expected The par
ents of James McGovern,
(above) 27-year-old pilot for
the Central Air Transport,
Corp., said in Elizabeth, N.
J., that arrangements are un
der way with the Chinese com
munists for his release. Mc
Govern has been detained by
the Reds since his airliner was
forced down in their territory
on Dec. 4. The plot served
under Chennault in the Flying
Tigers during the war. (AP
Wirephoto)
Martin to Pick
Policy Group
Washington, Jan. 2 CP) Rep.
Martin (R., Mass.), said today
he will name a committee of
nine house republicans soon to
help draft a statement of party
congressional policy.
The GOP leader told a news
conference that this committee
presumably will work with sim
ilar committees from the senate
and from the republican nation
al committee.
Martin's announcement made
it clear that he will go along
with the move by GOP National
Chairman Guy G. Gabrielson to
get a general policy pronounce
ment drafted for use in this
year's congressional campaign
That idea has strong support
in the party but has run into
some opposition.
Martin said a major aim of
house republicans during the
new congressional session will
-be to cut government expenses.
He said he personally is for cuts
in foreign spending, reduction
of excise taxes and a balanced
budget without levying any new
taxes.
"The people certainly are dis
contented," Martin said. "They
are kicking about high taxes,
high government spending and
high prices."
Father, Two Sons
Die in Plane Crash
Chehalis, Wash., Jan. 2 VPi A
holiday reunion ended in death
yesterday for a father and his
two sons. The trio was killed
outright when a small plane
crashed in a nearby slough dur
ing a sudden snow squall.
The victims were Joel C. Dol
by, 41, a St. Helens, Ore., bus
iness-man, and his two boys,
Robert, 17, and Frank, 15.
They were en route to 01-
ympia. Wash., where Robert liv
ed with his mother and step
father, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hen-
drickson. The parents were div
orced several years ago.
Dolby, who held a private pi
lot's license, was flying to 01
ympia, apparently by visual con
tact with the ground, from Scap
poose. Ore., where he rented
the plane.
He was heard circling low
over farms several hundred feet
southwest of the Chehalis city
limits. Moments later he crash
ed Into the slough bank near the
Newaukum river bridge.
The plane settled in about
three feet of water and rescuers
found the bodies pinned in the !
mud.
Shah Returns to Tehran
Tehran, Iran, Jan. 2 (IP Mo
hammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of
Iran, returned home today from
a six-week's visit in the United
States. In a broadcast to the
Iranian people he declared that
a summary of the message he
brought home with him was
"Work, unity and an end of cor
ruption." Ends Soon!
i Most beautiful of the aiant mo-
bile bouquets was the "Free
dom" entry of Long Beach, Calif.
This sweepstakes winner mod
eled In white chrysanthemums
the forms of three huge doves.
The float gained color from the
lavish use of yellow mums, pink
roses, lilies and orchids.
The national trophy for the
best float from outside Califor
nia went to Santa Fe, N. M. This
entry was the head of a Pueblo
Indian, represening "old man
gloom." Surrounding the head
were flame-colored flowers de
picting the burning of gloom at
the annual Santa Fe festival.
The festival queen, Anita Rom
ero, rode the float.
It was the "largest event in
the United States," said Police
Chief Clarence H. Morris, who
directed traffic via radio from
millionaire Howard Hughes'
blimp. More than 1200 officers
regulated the flow of automo
biles.
The crowd witnessing the 61st
Tourname.it of Roses was slight
ly smaller than last year's rec
ord 1,750,000. Many of them ar
rived late, waiting until the last
minute because of threatened
showers.
The spectacle was worthy of
the effort. The record total of
72 floats last year there were
56 was the end result of more
than 25,000 craftsmen's weeks of
work. Actually participating in
the parade were 3350 persons, in
cluding the personnel of 20 bands
and ZOO equestrians. Nearly 100
pretty girls in shimmering white
gowns decorated the floats, some
of which carried as many as 50
persons.
Shortly after the parade start
ed, the sun began breaking
through, glinting on the $10,000
crown worn by Rose Queen Mar
ion Brown.
The Portland. Ore.. Rose Fes
tival's entry was the winner in
the class for cities over 50.000
outside California. On the float
was a 35-foot violin of white
chrysanthemums.
Finland Denies
Soviet Charges
Helsinki, Finland, Jan. 2 (Pi
Finland prepared a prompt an
swer today to Kremlin charges
that this country is harboring
more than 300 Russian war crim
inals in violation of the Soviet
Finnish peace treaty. It is abun
dantly clear here that the gov
ernment regards the charges
with the utmost gravity.
A government committee be
gan a study of the Soviet note
containing the accusations, which
arrived in Helsinki last night.
The Finnish reply is expected
quickly, perhaps tomorrow,
even later today.
There are several factors
which cause political quarters to
regard the new Soviet thrust as
extremely serious. In the first
place, this time the charges are
made directly by the Soviet for
eign ministry to the Finnish min
ister in Moscow, not in the press
as so otten in the past.
In the second place, Finland
has a presidential election com
ing up, probably next month.
and there are those who believe
the Russian action is aimed at in
fluencing the voting. And in the
third place, the Russian minister
to Finland, Grigory Savonenkov.
is expected to return here tomor
row after a long stay in Mos
cow. Medrano Surrenders
Manila, Jan. 2 VP) Gen. Fran
cisco Medrano, who staged a re-
oeuion on Nov. 19 to exDress
dissatisfaction with the presiden
tial election, surrendered today
to President Elpidio Quirino.
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(By the Aisoelated Presi)
The nation began the last day
of its New Year holiday under
leaden skies Monday with
much of America under clouds
you'd have to poke a hole in the
sky to see the sun.
And where it wasn't cloudy, it
was wet. A soggy belt strapped
the country from the Great
Lakes and upper Mississippi
valley to southern New Eng
land. There wasn't much of :
heavy rain fall along this belt
in most spots it was a light
rain .or drizzle, which is expect
ed to last through the day.
There was rain, too, in south
central parts of the country.
The only wintery weather on
the scene was in Montana, nor
thern Wyoming and Idaho where
snow covered the ground and
was expected to fall all day in
the northern Rockies.
This may be a good omen for
mountain states farmers who
are praying for heavy snows.
They depend on snow to provide
moisture for winter crops and
irrigation. A year ago, they had
the first of seven solid weeks of
unrelenting snow storms which
took a terrible toll of human
lives, livestock and wildlife,
isolated towns and snarled
transportation. The weather bu
reau doesn't see any immediate
likelihood of the same thing be
ginning Monday.
Snow fell in W a s h i n g ton
around Seattle, and temperatures
through the northwest were low.
The coldest spot in the nation
was Great Falls, Mont., where it
was 30 below. Miami was warm
with a high of 69. Other early
readings: Chicago, 48; New
York City, 40; Fort Worth, 63;
St. Louis, 51; Minneapolis. 33:
Seattle 26; Los Angeles, 44, and
Phoenix, 57.
Find Wreckage
Of Lost Plane
Waycross, Ga., Jan. 2 (P) The
civil air patrol has identified a
plane grounded in the mountain
ous southeast section of Pennsyl
vania as the missing aircraft two
New York men chartered here
Dec. 22 for a Christmas visit to
their homes.
S. W. White, operator of the
Okefenokee Flying Service here
and owner of the plane, said ci
vil aeronautics authorities have
informed him the low-wing
monoplane was spotted by a pa
trol plane yesterday near Mt,
Polono about 20 miles northwest
of Stroudsberg, Pa.
However, White said, there
was no indication this morning as
to the fate of James J. Rogers,
Jr., of Schenectady, N. Y., and
Colin Cousins, Smiths Basin.
Washington county, N. Y.
Ground searching parties have
not reached the scene, he said.
The two men, employed by
the National Lead company at
MacClenny, Fla., left Waycross
on Dec. 22 in a light plant char
tered from the Okefenokee Fly
ing Service. They indicated that
Glen Falls, N. Y., was their des
tination. coin were reported missing
Thursday when an official of the
National Lead company tele
phoned Rogers' home in Schenec
tady to find out when he would
return to work.
He was told that Rogers had
not arrived there for Christmas.
Train Hits Wall
Stamford, Conn., Jan. 2 (P)
Shunted onto a factory siding by
switcn police said was un
locked, a railroad passenger
coach plowed through a bumper
block and a concrete wall here
last night, penetrating 19 feet
into the plant of the Stamford
Rolling Mills. Eleven of the two
car train's 30 passengers and
two of three crew members were
injured, none seriously.
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Exposed While playing on
a company property at St.
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a fishing line and sinker into
his pocket. His find was later
discovered to be a $1500 ra
dium capsule and he had ex
posed himself to possible se
vere radium burns. Used to
photograph castings, the com
pany stored the radium in an
isolated shed as a safety meas
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physicians after 10 days when
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any possible injury. (Acme
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Czechs Claiming
Church Defeated
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jan.
2 lP Czechoslovakia's commu
nist President Klement Gott
wald said in a New Year's day
message his government had won
its fight with the Roman Catho
lic church.
He charged that the fight was
started by the nation's Catholic
bishops, with foreign support, to
overthrow the present regime.
All attempts by "hostile for
eign capitalist countries" to sab
otage the regime have been beat
en down, Gottwald said.
He declared the bitter church-
state struggle had been settled
when the government put the
clergy on the government pay
roll, making it possible "for
them to devote themselves ex
clusively to their religious du
ties."
Although Gottwald said the
government's fight with the
church was over, Czech bishops
only a few weeks ago still pro
claimed their defiance of the
church-control laws which the
president claims brought about
the settlement.
Soil Conservation
District to Dine
Silverton The first annual
meeting of the Silver Creek soil
conservation district members
is announced for Wednesday
Deginning in a dinner at
o'clock at the Waldo Hills com
munity hall.
Featured speaker is to be J.
H. Christ of Portland, regional
conservator for the U.S. depart
ment.
Local vocal and instrumental
music will supplement the
speaking and business hour.
Spain, the Near East and
Greece for centuries furnished
the world with its supply of
raisins. .
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Kidnapers of
Banker Nabbed
Wichita, Kas., Jan. 2 m Two
men, one an ex-convict, were
charged last night with kidnap
ing a banker and holding him
for 12 hours.
The banker, R. B. McPherson,
64, said he was abducted Thurs
day as he got into his automo
bile in Shreveport, La., and
forced to drive the pair through
four states.
The men accused of kidnaping
are R. Avington Hutchins, 31,
Wichita, and John Henry Dauer,
60, an ex-convict, Lakeland, Fla.
An argument in the back seat
of a taxicab led to their capture
Saturday night.
McPherson, a retired Shreve
port banker, said he drove
through Louisiana, Arkansas,
Missouri and Kansas before be
ing bound and put out of the
car near Redfield, Kas.
"When those two men tied
my wrists together with my own
shoelaces and bound my ankles
together with their handker
chiefs before they let me out of
the car, they told me the only
reason I had not been mistreated
was because I had courage and
had obeyed their orders," Mc
Pherson said.
He was released two hours la
ter by a passing farmer.
The men were arrested short
ly after they got into an argu
ment in a taxicab in Wichita.
During the argument Dauer fir
ed three shots at Hutchins,
wounding him slightly. Neither
would say what caused the ar
gument. Kremlin Raps
German Reds
Berlin, Jan. 2 VP) Western
socialist circles reported today
tnat tne communists are in trou
ble with Moscow for failure to
promote prosperity in eastern
Germany.
The British-licensed Telegraf,
edited by socialists who have
many party friends in the So
viet zone, said the Rusian high
command has sharply rebuked
the eastern government for:
1 Watered accounts which
on examination disclosed that
fulfillment of the two-year pro
duction plan was achieved only
on paper.
2 Deliveries of Inferior
quality goods to both Soviet
Russia and to east German trade
channels.
The Telegraf asserted that
Russian Foreign Minister An
drei Vishlnsky was sent to Ber
lin to jack up the communist
regime, the newspaper added
that east Germany's Deputy
Prime Minister Walter Ulbrlcht
was summoned to Moscow to re
ceive implementing instructions,
under the pretense that he was
only there for the celebration of
Marshal Stalin's 70th birthday.
South and North Dakota and
Minnesota lead the states in
number of city-operated liquor
stores.
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